Iron County register., 1887-06-30

over the house. Jake, has that dray
Gomez" he shouted, as he bounced tc
his feet. "Confound that dray, blame
my skin if I'll ever get dray to move
these things Boys let's take another
drinkP"
After the drink another hero re-
marked: '.Boys, lets stay and see it
out-durned if it don't look cowardly
to rum He poured another spirit
from the jug and said: boys, who
shall we drink to?" ''Cassabianca,
said I. "Good-good!' they shouted.
..Lets drink to Cabasianka I've spoke
it thousand times" He mounted on
| a broken sofa and declaimed:
"The boy stood burning on the deck
Whence all had fed but him."
"That's me-" said one. '1t's me
| exactly,' said another. II am Caba-
sianker myself-dog my cat if I don't
be the last one to leave this ship" An
other shell sized and bursted few
yards off. ':Boys, lets take one more
drink and leave the dogoned town
dadburn the Yankees" Here's to-
here's to. ''The last of the Mohicans, "
said L That's it, said he. here's to
the-mast of the Lohicans."
| By and by the shells fell thick and
fast and caused more speedy locomo-
ton in the excited throng that hurried
by the door, but my friends inside had
passed the Rubicon and one by one re-
tired to dream of Bozzaris and his
Suliote band. Vacant rooms and long
corridors echoed with their snores and
they appeared like sleeping heroes in
the halls of the Montezumas.
| Panics are catching-there is no mis-
take about it. 1t is not one man in a
thousand who can resist them and re-
tain his philosophy and be calm and
serene. Napoleon said that all men
were towards by night. Some are
towards by day, both in mind and
body. And some who are towards in
body are sustained in mind and will
power and dare to be brave. General
Dick Taylor, who never faltered, says
of himself that he never went into bat.
tie but what his cowardly frame trem.
bled and quaked from head to foot.
Just before battle he would look al
his shaking knees with contempt and
say: "You cowardly scamps, what ar
you shaking now for, why don't yor
wait until you are in danger?" He
says that, if he had given them the
slightest encouragement, his leg:
would have run away with his body
every time.
/ But panics are worse than battle
more demoralizing. have seen the
shaking Quakers going through theil
pious motions and peculiar attitudes.
I have curiously watched and waitet
for the first shake of the spiritual leg
Then another and another would catch
the delicious tremblings until the en-
tire assembly were shuf1ing their ex
tremities in hysteric beauty. just Sc
the leg panics seemed to inspire tn
good people Of Atlanta The frs
good shake that occurred on Peach Tre'
was a foul contagion that soon spreas
it's awful trembles from the barraek
to the Fair grounds, sweeping in its all
gathering course the excited popu1a
ton who peopled its busy streets Al
day and all night long the iron horse
| WeTe SilOIGlnSo W IhO CCiiOfuS DECCAS
Train after train of goods and chattel
moved down the roads, there was n
method i'm their madness. ALI kind
of plumber were tumbled in promiseu
} ously. A huge parlor mirror was sc
: up at the end of a ear and reflected a
: assortment of pots and kettles and bal
l rels and baskets and bacon and bet
, steasts, all piled up together. Cover
4 ment officials all have friends, and
s course they bad the preference. An
t clever man. with a charming wife {
s pretty sister, could secure a corner
a more cars than one, and l will me-
s ton that I have found good deal
+ civility on this account myself. l
# deed, have always thought that ]
man is excusable who has not g
d either the one OF the other.
~ BILL AzN